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I picked up a box set of Andrzej Munk’s documentaries for a song a while back, from a charity shop whose assistant bemoaned the low price even as I exulted in it. Then I loaned it to a documentarist, who returned it with the words...
This Ina Garten salmon salad is a smart, flavorful way to use leftover salmon. Flaked chilled salmon gets tossed with celery, red onion, dill, capers, olive oil, and a quick raspberry vinegar substitute made with red wine vinegar and...
This is a diagnosis of a small shift, but it’s trapped inside a narrow, liberal property lens on what the internet is and was supposed to be. What’s being described as a “split” between a Free-For-All quarry and gated communities is what...
Building fanfiction.lol taught me that some promises are impossible to keep. I wanted canonical tags for everything and 'write whatever you want' as a tagline, but Canadian obscenity laws and the philosophical complexity of tag wrangling...
The future is always unknowable but sometimes its impenetrability is tangible. As I plan for my mom, I have literally no idea how her life will proceed. My accountant brain wants to lay out the possibilities. Yet at every approach to the...
A recipe for improving data visualization
If you’re expecting the usual sex blogging here, you’ll be sorely disappointed. I wrote this because some people (like, literally about five) asked me if I was planning to blog about my recent bike trip across Europe, and although I’m...
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of May 2026, is now online courtesy of Sophia Wood at Fractal Kitty. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some...
We shipped dedicated webpack and Next.js plugins for Flare that upload sourcemaps after each production build. Nice update, especially the Next.js wrapper that handles source map generation and cleanup for you. Read more